Re: [Patch] Rebase: new switch --ephemeral

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jul  4 20:13, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Christopher Faylor writes:
> > I don't think any native English speaker would use "ephemeral" as a
> > switch name.  I'll bet a significant number of native English speakers
> > don't even know what it means.
> 
> How many of those are compiling their own Cygwin packages?
> 
> > And, I said "something like" not "you must use exactly what I said".  I
> > don't want to get in naming wars but, again, if you want people to
> > actually know about and remember this option you need to use another
> > name.
> 
> Fair enough.  I've looked up all the synonyms to "ephemeral" and there
> is none that makes a good switch name, IMHO.  But I think this impasse
> can be circumvented.  The switch "ephemeral" gets renamed to "temporary"
> (short form "-t") and becomes a flag, like -s already is and does just
> alter the behaviour of rebase and not asking for a file list (which
> still needs to be given with "-T file list").  Incidentally that rather
> elegantly resolves one objection from Corinna that the files given on
> the command line were unaccounted for.  The invocation would then be:
> 
> rebase -stT file_list extra_file
> 
> Does this look more reasonable to you all?

Not speaking for all, just for me, I like the idea to make the switch
a simple switch without argument.  The only problem is that the -t
option is already in use.  What about -O/--oblivious?


Corinna

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